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While I was putting together my ballot for the best films and performances of the year for the Boston Online Film Critics Association, I of course couldn’t help trying as best I could to consider the best horror films of ...

In 1979, Jahangir Salehi Yeganehrad would flee from his home country of Iran — which was, at that time, amidst a revolution — to find a new life in America. Beyond a few passing quotes, there is little information about ...

In 1971, Francis Ford Coppola made a film called The Godfather. In it, a hot-headed studio executive refuses to give a role to a singer, and a mafia family decapitates the studio executive’s horse to persuade him otherwise. Decapitating a ...

The first time I saw Nightmare City aka The City of the Walking Dead, I just wasn’t ready for it. I was 14 (maybe 15) and was obsessed Romero’s trilogy but had really only seen a handful of Italian genre ...

Years before Coppola’s, Kurosawa’s, or Scorsese’s, Wes Craven’s name was the first of a film director I committed to memory. By the time I had met and started hanging out with a horror-obsessed friend when I moved to New Jersey ...

At this point, the woman on the verge of a complete schizoid break is a cinematic cliché. What is most odd about the subject’s frequency is that it is often grounds most heralded by white male directors. This can — ...

Last week I found myself on a much-needed vacation. The destination was Austin, and although Austin might not seem like the ideal vacation destination, it’s a wonderful haven in the South for film buffs. Hours were spent strolling through the endless ...

What was that again? Certainly I can’t be serious, right? Yes, without any hint of irony I feel confident in expressing a strong admiration for the Craig R. Baxley’s Brian Bosworth-action-vehicle Stone Cold (1991). Sure, its not by conventional terms a ...

As the camera fades up, the first image audiences are met with is a woman dressed in traditional garb, gesturing for the camera. It plays out like a parody of a bad sitcom, complete with cutesy gestures and goofy interactions complete ...

It was 1984. With the imminent election of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Cold War was about to enter into its final stages. Tensions were high, and the already rocky relationship between the Soviet Union and the rest of the Western world ...